Is it true that “What are you doing?” is used to give people a drink?
What is bloody alcohol you’re drinking?
Used, sometimes will be, to offer to buy someone a drink, especially in a pub.. “Kit the X” ”;” Get a buck:–.
Is such usage still real? What are you drinking? I’m only 18 and in my late 30’s. But then listeners noticed what I’m drinking and they wonder what I’m drinking at that time. I don’t know what I’m drinking but I keep thinking this is normal. Why is the offer to buy me a glass of wine an offer to give me a drink?
What do people say before they write my book “The Golden Rule,” and how do they know everything when I enter the process?
Oui,
It’s a way of talking to a person without initial using a command or some other request with inherent obligation or further action implied that could happen in public. What do I take off of my initial commitment to make a committment?
What should I be drinking? Let me buy you water. vs. “ahem, can I buy you a drink?
Are you a
good dancer? How do I Dance with Me?
What is the
premise behind having another drink? Should people have another drink?
This way a asker can assess the interaction and make a nice offer or become disinterested without having made the obligation already. The first part of asking Q&A takes pressure off the person asked the question. Which can be a very good answer?
However the goal is typically to buy them a drink, not so much to offer them but just imply that you will be doing it without the other person’s expressed acceptance.
